Risk of dementia and mild cognitive impairment among older adults in same-sex relationships.
Jaime PeralesKathryn GauthreauxJason FlattMerilee Ann TeylanJason ResendezWalter A KukullKwun C G ChanJeffrey BurnsEric D VidoniPublished in: International journal of geriatric psychiatry (2019)
The lack of association between SSR and MCI and dementia warrants future research into their potential resilience mechanisms and the inclusion of sexual minority status questions in research and surveillance studies. The potential recruitment bias caused by nonprobabilistic sampling of the cohort and the reporting and ascertainment bias caused by using SSR to infer sexual minority status may have influenced our findings.